As long as I've known it the internet has always been a rapidly changing phenomenon. From humble beginnings it has grown into a world-connecting platform by evolving to meet the needs of the public, often before they even know they have them. As websites like Google grew into infamy, they became integral in forging the future of the internet for better or worse.
In more recent years, the shape of this development has shifted towards the benefits of corporations, with ad spends and SEO demands coming before the needs of the people. In this time search results have notably gotten much, much worse and continue to do so. This has lead to people dropping Google for search, despite it once being so popular we adopted it as a verb.
Websites have noticed their traffic decreasing thanks to this new way of packaging information, though Google has denied this decline. That is until recently, when Jason Kint (via The Verge) spotted Google's admission in open court, stating “the open web is already in rapid decline.” Of course, this was only in an effort to save its advertising business rather than for freedom of accurate information or [[link]] the health of the internet at large.
This position seems to fly in the face of Google's stance that the web is thriving. Google spokesperson Jackie Berté claims the reason for this is because the statement is only aimed at open-web advertising.
"It's clear from the preceding sentence that we're referring to 'open-web display advertising' and not the open web as a whole," Berté told The Verge. "We are pointing out the obvious: that investments in non-open web display advertising like connected TV and retail media are growing at the expense of those in open web display advertising."
I purposely included the previous sentence Berté is talking about here when quoting the statement to provide [[link]] this context but to my eyes it could read either way. Yes google is talking about open web display advertising but that is based on using the open web, and the decline of one is likely intrinsically linked to the fall of the other. It's important to remember, this is the company that removed the once inspiringly simple "Don't be evil" from its mission statement for reasons.

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